Ch 1&2
These plants have tubes to bring water to the different parts.
What is a Vascular Plant?
The male part of a flower.
What is the Stamen?
When a plant steals nutrients from another plant, it is called this.
What is a Parasitic plant?
A special sense that plants have that makes their roots grow towards the earth.
What is Geotropism?
These plants do not have tubes to carry water throughout the plant
The female part of a flower.
What is the Carpel?
The spreading of seeds by animals, humans, wind or mechanical means.
What is Seed Dispersal?
Chemicals that affect how a plant grows.
What are Auxins?
The study of plants is called this.
What is Botany?
A plant that produces a flower and makes seeds.
What is an Angiosperm?
The process by which a plant makes it's own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
A special sense that causes plants to turn towards the light.
What is Phototropism?
This is the term for a baby plant.
What is an Embryo?
The straw tube that a butterfly uses to collect nectar.
What is a Proboscis?
What is Chlorophyll?
Tubes that send food back down to the plant.
What is Phloem?
This is the process of a seed sprouting into a plant.
What is germination?
When pollen moves from the stamen to the carpel.
What is Pollination?
The process by which a plant releases excess water.
What is Transpiration?
This language is dead and is used for classifying plants by their genus and species.
What is Latin?